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Chapter 1: Understanding InDesign Ingredients
 Hand tool: The Hand tool lets you move a page around to view differ-
ent portions of it or another page entirely. After selecting the Hand tool,
click and drag in any direction. You can access the Hand tool temporar-
ily without actually switching tools by pressing Option+spacebar or
Alt+spacebar.
For a quick way to pan through your document, make sure that the
Hand tool is active. Then click and hold the mouse. InDesign will zoom
out and display a red rectangle. If you move the mouse, InDesign CS4
stops zooming and instead lets you move the rectangle to a new area of
focus. Let go to have InDesign display that part of the document back
at the original zoom setting. (This new zoom-and-pan navigator option
replaces previous versions’ Navigator panel and its features.) If the
autozoom is too fast, you can use the up and down arrow keys instead
to manually move through various zoom levels. And if you decide you’ve
navigated some place you didn’t mean to, just press Esc — as long as
the mouse is still pressed — to start over.
 Zoom tool: With the Zoom tool, you increase and decrease the docu-
ment view scale. You can highlight a specific area on a page to change
its view, or you can click on-screen to change the view scale within
InDesign’s preset increments, which is the same as pressing Ô+= or
Ctrl+= to zoom in.
 View buttons: At the very bottom of the Tools panel is the Preview
Mode button. Its pop-out menu has four preview options: Bleed mode,
Slug mode, Preview mode, and Normal mode. Bleed mode shows any
objects that bleed (extend) beyond the page boundaries, whereas Slug
mode shows the space reserved for information such as crop marks and
color separation names used in final output. Preview mode shows you
the layout as if it were printed (no guides, bounding boxes, and so on.)
Normal mode shows you any interface elements in use, such as guides,
hidden characters, and story threads. You can read more about these in
Chapter 3. You set these options when you create new documents or by
choosing File➪Document Setup.
If your Tools panel displays in two columns, you get two buttons at
the bottom of the panel: Normal Mode and Preview Mode. In that case,
Preview Mode has a pop-out menu that has the Preview, Bleed, and Slug
options. To toggle between single-column and two-column views of the
Tools panel, click the collapse icon (>> or <<, depending on how many
columns are displayed) at the top of the panel.
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